Supply Chain Consultant - East Africa at Lafayette Resources

Are you a Supply Chain Professional who is ready to take a significant career  move?

We are seeking to fill the position of a Supply Chain Consultant E. Africa, for our client HELP Logistics.

HELP Logistics is a non-profit subsidiary company of the Kühne Foundation. The Foundation was founded in 1976 by the Kühne family in Switzerland and HELP Logistics AG was registered in Switzerland in 2014 and it now has four regional offices in Singapore, Jordan, Senegal and Kenya.

This position of Supply Chain Consultant will provide support to HELP’s Operations in the humanitarian sector of the East and Southern Africa region. The role requires a high level of project management skills and analytical competencies that translates into breakthrough projects to support the organization’s vision.

The role is a key member of the HELP Logistics team and Reports to the Regional Director.

Your extensive consulting expertise, ability to navigate ambiguity, and problem-solving acumen will enhance HELP’s capacity in the region to deliver impactful projects and enhance the thought-leadership position of the organization in keeping abreast of new trends, opportunities, and challenges, while your extensive regional contextual experiences allow you to add local context to HELP Logistics projects.

To constantly strengthen the footprint and impact of HELP Logistics in the region, you support the Regional Director by maintaining the existing partnerships and generating new partnership opportunities across different sectors. To keep HELP’s regional office operational, you might also be asked to support the team on organizational and administrative matters from time to time.

You will be expected to travel up to 70% of the time to support projects in the region.

JOB PURPOSE

Your primary focus will be as follows:

· Managing comprehensive consulting projects that deliver analytical solutions to complex supply chain problems in the humanitarian and development space.

· In close collaboration with HELP’s partner organizations, you will be leading on the identification of critical problem(s) and frame and implement the project building upon most adequate analysis method(s).

· You will be coordinating small teams of internal and external experts and presenting findings to the partner’s senior management team at the end of the project.

· As part of the team, you create a nexus between humanitarian, commercial and academic organizations and transfer innovative supply chain knowledge informed by robust data analytics.

SCOPE OF FUNCTION / KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Expert Consulting
  • Be responsible for leading technical consulting projects, including such activities as supply chain and logistics advocacy, solution and innovation transfer from the commercial sector, and the coordination of supporting technical resources.
  • Identify business and technical requirements, conduct comprehensive discovery of problems/gaps, and architect client solutions to support their operations in humanitarian responses and development programs that is entirely data driven.
  • Be able to navigate ambiguity when engaging partners to streamline problem statements, formulate data driven approaches, and develop tangible solutions.
  • Be responsible for scoping missions, participating in engagements from kick-off through completion, and mentoring
• Capacity Strengthening  
  • Identify partner strengths and areas of improvement in their capacity to be up-skilled via our in-house developed training curriculum.
  • Perform as mentor or in coaching activities to strengthen capacity of partners in the sector.
  • Be responsible for leading, organizing, facilitating workshops and trainings based on our in-house developed training curriculum, or curated around the partner needs.
  • Transfer (and learn) technical competencies, knowledge, and skills to the internal team to ensure the organization stays at the forefront of innovation.
• Networking, Stewardship and Thought Leadership
  • Representing HELP Logistics, be a steward for supply chain and logistics excellence in the sector.
  • Maintain relationships with existing partners and establish new partnerships.
  • Advocate for the value of logistics and supply chain management in workshops, conferences, and publications.
  • Stay up-to-date and maintain as a thought leader on trends and innovations that are relevant and be able to derive concise impact assertions that are tangible for partners.
  • Draft or contribute to relevant publication in operational or academic avenues.

KEY JOB REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications and Experience

• A Master’s degree from a recognized academic institution in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Analytics, Economics, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of supply chain optimization consulting experience especially in supply chain optimization and/or strategic advisory role in public/commercial/non- profit sectors.
• 5+ years of experience managing customer/client-facing data driven consulting projects to completion and handling technical delivery
• Possess strong planning, management, communication, and coordination skills (with technical staff as well as senior management), with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
• Have a proven ability to analyze, diagnose and solve problems at operational, tactical, and strategic level.
• Familiar with the political, cultural, and economic situation in the region, and how it impacts our partners.
• Experience in supply chain or operations projects is highly desired.
• Experience with process mapping, analytical and optimization tools desired

 Functional Competencies required

• Ability to synthesize and analyze information and formulate and present clear recommendations.
• Strong data analytics skills accompanied by the required IT skills (excel, Tableau, Microsoft BI, and other analytics tools)
• Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively.
• Strong planning, project management and project coordination skills
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with professional proficiency in a regional language and very good skills in English.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively within the region.
• Commitment to HELP Logistics (and Kuehne Foundation) values and behaviors such as respect for diversity; integrity; professionalism and accountability.
• The ability to develop innovative, impactful solutions.

Core Competencies are;

• Professionalism
  • High quality expectations in regard to one’s own work and holding oneself accountable for project results.
  • Applying HELP’s consulting tools and training material as well as other existing methods and techniques required to solve identified problems.
• Collaboration
  • Building and maintaining effective relationships within the team as well with external partners and supporters
  • Being able to work in a team of HELP Logistics staff and external experts and be open to learn from others.
  • Being approachable and good listener while also contributing to solutions
• Uniqueness
  • The ability to retain the independence of HELP Logistics as a trusted, strategic third party to partners.
  • The ability to develop innovative, impactful solutions.
• Integrity
  • Show honesty, encourage openness and transparency.
  • Develop meaningful and bespoke solutions.